A raised bed can not only be used to protect your back when gardening. Instead, such a raised bed can also be used wonderfully as a decorative element and turns a boring driveway into an exciting garden project. After all, such a bed is more than just a wooden box that can be used for growing vegetables.
A raised bed also fits perfectly in a rock garden
Front yard design ideas with raised beds
There are countless ideas for designing such a decorative raised bed - and basically there are no limits to your imagination. In principle, a wide variety of materials can be used to build a raised bed - just as you imagine your front garden. Whether elegant with stone walls or gabions filled with light-colored stones or romantic and natural with wooden borders - there is the right bed for every style.
Structuring of the front yard
For example, raised beds are ideal for structuring the front yard - for example by positioning different high beds to the right and left of the path to the house entrance. These look particularly interesting if you pick up the material of the path - for example light stone slabs - and, in contrast, build the raised beds from the same stone, only in a darker colour.
Pretty natural stone wall as a demarcation to the street
Brick raised beds in particular are also very suitable for separating the front yard from the street or public space instead of a fence. These raised beds can be planted with perennials and shrubs, thus ensuring a certain degree of privacy.
Creative raised beds for the front yard
If, on the other hand, the raised bed is not to be used to structure the front garden, but rather as an eye-catcher, there are countless creative possibilities. For example, you can stack a few flat wooden boxes on top of each other to create a kind of spiral or fill an old tractor tire with potting soil and plant colorful summer flowers.
Converting various objects into raised beds
In general, a wide variety of objects can be transformed into an unusual raised bed in just a few simple steps. Old tubs made of enamel or zinc, old wheelbarrows made of wood or metal, old handcarts that are no longer needed, halved wooden barrels, Euro pallets, (29.99€) potato sacks and much more are suitable for this.
Noble: gabion raised bed filled with stones
If, on the other hand, the front garden should look more elegant, a round raised bed can be created from gabions, which is filled with light-colored stones and planted with lush, colorful summer flowers and is a pretty eye-catcher.
tips
You can set very special accents if you also place solar outdoor lights in the front garden raised bed.